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Oklahoma City, OK - April 16, 2014 - Today,
GoldFire Studios, an independent game developer based in Oklahoma
City, launched its Kickstarter-funded, HTML5 massively multiplayer
game,
CasinoRPG. CasinoRPG features an open world that
merges role-playing, tycoon and city-building with casino games
like poker, slots, blackjack and roulette. Unlike other casino
games, virtual winnings earned in CasinoRPG aren't just numbers,
they are used to design, build and manage casino empires and the
evolving world around them.

Thousands of social casino games exist today, but they all have
one thing in common - you can't do anything with your winnings.
CasinoRPG changes this by creating a massive world around these
casino games. Players start as janitors at a casino (all casinos in
the game are owned by other players), and through jobs, missions
and gambling, one can eventually work their way up to buy a plot of
land and build their own casinos.

CasinoRPG has been under development for over two years, most
recently completing a successful
Kickstarter campaign and closed beta testing in
2013. Open beta testing has been progressing since September of
last year, with over 17,000 players actively participating. During
this span, all of the artwork in the game has been completely
revamped, hundreds of new features added and thousands of bugs
squashed.

While the direct development of CasinoRPG has covered the span
of just a few years, GoldFire Studios' founder, James Simpson, has
been working towards this milestone for over a decade. He began
developing games at the age of 13, with credits including Eternal
Kingdoms, PokerRPG, BC Wars and the oft-controversial NexGen Wars
— reaching millions of gamers from every country in the world
along the way.

As development on CasinoRPG expanded, Simpson grew the GoldFire
Studios team to its current size of 3 full time members, with
operations headquartered in Oklahoma City. GoldFire Studios is the
first game development studio to launch in the city, but has helped
to spearhead a growing game development community with the founding
of the
Oklahoma Game Developers meetup. The team sees
the culture and community in Oklahoma City as a competitive
advantage over more common hubs of development activity.

From a technical perspective, CasinoRPG is a game that can be
played on virtually any device thanks to HTML5. This has presented
unique development challenges, but has allowed the same gameplay
experience to be available across desktop, mobile, tablet and
television. Rather than launching on Facebook or other platforms, a
new in-house platform,
GoldFire Network, will be hosting CasinoRPG on
the open web. In addition, apps are available on the Chrome Web
Store and Windows 8 Store. GoldFire Studios has made a mission of
advancing the web as a legitimate gaming platform, and CasinoRPG is
the first major step towards that goal.

About GoldFire Studios

GoldFire Studios, Inc. is an independent game development and
publishing studio based out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. GoldFire
Studios specializes in developing highly interactive browser-based
games that utilize cutting-edge web technologies around real-time
multiplayer gaming experiences. The GoldFire Network, launched in
2012, boasts more than 250,000 users from every country in the
world. More information can be found by visiting
http://goldfirestudios.com.